CTET – JAN 2012

STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF SYLLABUS
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a) Child Development (Primary School Child) 15 Questions
• Concept of development and its relationship with learning
• Principles of the development of children
• Influence of Heredity & Environment
• Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
• Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
• Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
• Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
• Multi Dimensional Intelligence
• Language & Thought
• Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice
• Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of
language, caste, gender, community, religion etc.
• Distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-
Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice
• Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for
enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner
achievement.b) Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs 5 Questions
• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc
• Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learnersc) Learning and Pedagogy 10 Questions
• How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school
performance.
• Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a
social activity; social context of learning.
• Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’
• Alternative conceptions of learning in children; understanding children’s ‘errors’ as
significant steps in the learning process.
• Cognition & Emotions
• Motivation and learning
• Factors contributing to learning- personal & environmental

II. Language I. 30 Questions

a) Language Comprehension 15 Questions
Reading unseen passages- two passages one prose or drama and one poem with
questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability (Prose passage may
be literary, scientific , narrative or discursive)b) Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions
• Learning and acquisition
• Principles of language Teaching
• Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
• Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating
ideas verbally and in written form
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors
and disorders
• Language Skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and
writing
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of
the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

III. Language – II 30 Questions

a) Comprehension 15 Questions
Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with
questions on comprehension, grammar and verbal abilityb) Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions
• Learning and acquisition
• Principles of language Teaching
• Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
• Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating
ideas verbally and in written form;
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors
and disorders
• Language Skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and
writing
• Teaching -learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource
of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

I. Child Development and Pedagogy 15 Questions
a) Child Development (Elementary School Child)
• Concept of development and its relationship with learning
• Principles of the development of children
• Influence of Heredity & Environment
• Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
• Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
• Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
• Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
• Multi Dimensional Intelligence
• Language & Thought
• Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice
• Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of
language, caste, gender, community, religion etc.
• Distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-
Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice
• Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for
enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner
achievement. b) Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs 5 Questions
• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc
• Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learnersc) Learning and Pedagogy 10 Questions
• How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school
performance
• Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as
a social activity; social context of learning.
• Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’ Alternative conceptions of
learning in children; understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning
process.
• Cognition & Emotions
• Motivation and learning
• Factors contributing to learning personal & environmental

II. Language I. 30 Questions

a) Language Comprehension 15 Questions
Reading unseen passages- two passages one prose or drama and one poem with
questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability (Prose passage may
be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive)b) Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions
• Learning and acquisition
• Principles of language Teaching
• Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
• Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating
ideas verbally and in written form;
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors
and disorders
• Language Skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and
writing
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of
the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

III. Language- II 30 Questions

a)Comprehension 15 Questions
Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with
questions on comprehension, grammar and verbal abilityb) Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions
• Learning and acquisition
• Principles of language Teaching
• Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
• Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating
ideas verbally and in written form;
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors
and disorders
• Language Skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and
writing
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of
the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

a) Content 40 QuestionsI. History
• When, Where and How
• The Earliest Societies
• The First Farmers and Herders
• The First Cities
• Early States
• New Ideas
• The First Empire
• Contacts with Distant lands
• Political Developments
• Culture and Science
• New Kings and Kingdoms
• Sultans of Delhi
• Architecture
• Creation of an Empire
• Social Change
• Regional Cultures
• The Establishment o f Company Power
• Rural Life and Society
• Colonialism and Tribal Societies
• The Revolt of 1857 -58
• Women and reform
• Challenging the Caste System
• The Nationalist Movement
• India After IndependenceII. Geography
• Geography as a social study and as a science
• Planet: Earth in the solar system
• Globe
• Environment in its totality: natural and human environment.
• Air
• Water
•Human Environment: settlement, transport and communication.
• Resources: Types- Natural and Human
• AgricultureIII. Social and Political Life
• Diversity
• Government
• Local Government
• Making a Living
• Democracy
• State Government
• Understanding Media
• Unpacking Gender
• The Constitution
• Parliamentary Government
• Social Justice and the Marginalisedb) Pedagogical issues 20 Questions
• Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies
• Class Room Processes, activities and discourse
• Developing Critical thinking
• Enquiry/Empirical Evidence
• Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies
• Sources – Primary & secondary
• Projects Work
• Evaluation
Note: For Detailed syllabus of classes I -VIII, please refer to NCERT syllabus and textbooks.

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